Tip car



A. FOUCHY.

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T all whom it may concern" Be it known that I, ALBE T Fooling citizen of the French Republig KQSltll :3 Rue Lafayette, Psi-is, Lance have invented certain new and useful im ii-ovemenss in Tip "Fairs, of whiol foilowing is s specification.

1n. the cssel of sip cor s of Deoauvi 1e sype, it has already been proposed to mount the car bodies on trunnioiis J the can bodies to be tippeo "by around 3.11 axis tiassing through tudi-nal s 'mmetry plane. in such car platform is provided. vertical uprights for sum nions of it our body! In she case of railroad cars body is permanently fixed to the cor p form, it has been proposed to groviso at discharging causing the ping of the entire car loti Those constructions; iowever cost i L hoppers, tips.

the car bod takes the opened sides oi:

The omboilin'ient. of this irate-cl by Way of example in tha'ocwompany ing drawings in \"hich:-

Fig; 1 is a side elevation of tho combinui improved car and tipping apparatus.

Fig. 2 is a Vertiosi cross ss zsion thereof.

Fig. 3 is s View similarfio but show ing the parts in their operating position.

Fig. 4 is a vertical cross section, drawn to a larger scale, of a detail.

The car platform is composed of two beams 1. stayed together by cross members 2. This platform is adapted to carry two C511 bodies 30f Wood, wood metal or vholl v 0'? mots sngported by four longitudinsls 41- and connected to members 5 joui'nsiied to truimions mounted. on the iongituciinsis 1. of the car platform.

These various parts are so arranged as to enable the car body to tip around the trunnions of one of the longiunlinals constitut- Y fixed ai the inner ing she oer phi-01m, longitudinal of she e spreader beam 7, chains 8 and of any kin-cl.

The symmetrical m'rsn allows moreover of tipni i the one side or to the 03:

closi i by rfil a. fulcrum the trul nions of one or the oi: isr loiwisudinais.

The car bodies are provided with doors 6 10 which can be hinged. their upper parts on hinge pins 11 and kept oioseil oi; their lower ends by hooks i2 mounted on a shaft 3 ed by s levsr Wni 11% oi 1e pistiorm 'i 14; will, as

om. the (horizo s automotionlly nnhinge the hooks when one of the cor bodies has been tipped beyond definite clinsls beiween the are csr' bodies, abut against each other who! fixed to the outer ends r the longitudinsls are arranged, to abut a ins-i other similarly curved parts 1 5 fixed to the lll'lfiGI'-C23,i?ift8 oi the (:iir. 'When one thew}? bodies 1-3 tipped, and its pa" moor has been ooened by imhinging the ho i of she ievei' 14: for the p irpose o mpi inp; the

1?, will he s contents of the cor boly, .zuiiioient 9v to allow the \vinillsss iihirh is illliln lilli the car body in tho tipped position, ascend, whereupon the car body will subonaticslly resume its origins position on the :ar platform.

The car body maintained in its normal position transversely by the pivot members that. rest upon the tripmions 6 and longitudinally by the curved ports which shut respootivel against each other snd against L60 corrosponding parts 16.

The car bodies are thus held by the em platform in such ii manner 'ihss they on not bevome shifted ijliirino 'onsport.

It is to be iinilersio' (E that the 001' mtionol form of the improved apparatus hfirw in described and ill .;e(l in the ma ompsnyino drawings is iven SOiQlY by way of example, and that the QOI'lSiILllCklOilili forms, accessories and dimensions may Vary w' out departing from the nature of the invention. For instance the platform may carry only one car body or it may early three or four or any desired number as required. hat I claim is In a tip car, the combination with a car -platform having sup orting members located on the longitu inal sides thereof of one or more side-discharging car bodies, separate from the car platform adapted to rest normally on said supporting members and to .pivot on the latterfalternately, an outwardly opening door hinged at its upper position,

end in earl) longitudinal side of said car body hooks mounted on a shaft For holding the lower ends of each door in the closing l and a counterweighted lever mounted on said shaft and adapted when the-car liody is in its normal position to hold said hooks in the latohed position and for nnhinging said hooks to unlatch' that one of said doors that is situated on the tipping side when the car body is tilted.

In testimony whereof I have signedmy name to this speriliratio'n.

ALBERT- FOUCHY. 

